Mancini•Duffy pleased to publicly announce that we're serving as the architect-of-record for a new 70,000-sf Brooklyn Nets training facility, designed by Manica Architecture and set to open in time for the 2015-2016 season.
For more information, please check out these articles on SB Nation, and the Brooklyn Nets' own website. MANICA also has some beautiful renderings on their website.
"Standing Innovation," the latest article in National Real Estate Investor by our Director of Workplace Innovation, Fran Ferrone, discusses how prolonged sitting is becoming a major concern to employers as the importance of health is gaining momentum in the workplace. Here's a PDF version of the full article, alternatively titled "If Sitting Is The New Smoking, Is Standing The New Patch?"
Fran Ferrone writes a monthly column for National Real
Estate Investor about workplace topics that affect real estate decisions.
Recent Hires in Business Development, Marketing, & Leadership of Law Firm Practice Support the Firm’s Strategic Plan
As Mancini•Duffy gears up for its 100th anniversary in 2015, the firm has given its strategic plan a strong foundation with several important new hires: Morgan Gorospe, Business Development Director; Kristin Valente, Marketing Director; and Stephen Gertz, who will co-share leadership of the law firm practice with Dina Frank.
Ted S. Hammer, Mancini•Duffy President, said, “There’s no question that Mancini•Duffy is hitting the ground running into its next 100 years. Our new strategic plan balances prudence with boldness: we are capitalizing on our historic strengths and excited about our near-term growth.”
Hammer, himself a relative new-comer to Mancini•Duffy, notes, too, that the firm’s ability to attract exceptional talent is a measure of wide-spread confidence in its future. “I joined Mancini•Duffy a year and a half ago because I saw such terrific opportunity and wanted to help realize it. Then last year, Christian Giordano came on board as Principal and Director of Architecture and is making building design a powerful and growing part of our practice. Now,” Hammer says, “three more experienced and gifted professionals are lending their skills and enthusiasm to our business development.”
Morgan Gorospe has 13 years’ experience in business development and project management for leading construction management firms including Structure Tone, Swinerton Builders and Perini. She has not only had great success in introducing new business, but in developing excellent long-term relationships with clients. In addition to a BA in Fine Arts/Emphasis in Interior Design from the University of Southern California, Morgan holds a Graduate Degree in Construction Planning & Management from UCLA. She is an active member of the New York Building Congress, CoreNet, USGBC, and ASHE.
Kristin Valente comes to Mancini•Duffy with more than a decade in marketing, as marketing coordinator for Perkins Eastman for seven years and, more recently, as Northeast Regional Marketing Coordinator for the civil and environmental engineering firm of Greeley and Hansen. A graduate of the University of Vermont with a BA in English, Kristin co-chairs the SMPS New York Chapter Professional Development Committee.
Stephen Gertz is a widely recognized expert in the design of corporate offices, with particular expertise and extensive experience with law firms. During his nearly four decades as Executive Vice President and Principal with Keiser Associates, he brought to that firm, designed, and managed a broad range of law firm projects. His success in developing working relationships—some as much as 20 years long—with his clients has led many of them to follow him to Mancini•Duffy, where he can effectively continue to serve them in a larger, more diversified firm with a strong history of quality design and service. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.
All three of these professionals have expressed their excitement at joining Mancini•Duffy because of the firm’s excellent history, its vision going forward, its focus on the practice of architecture and interior design, and its Center for Workplace Innovation. They look forward to telling the firm’s story.
Mancini Duffy's Center for Workplace Innovation contributes to NeoCon2014 Trends to Watch. Click here to access the press release.
Fran Ferrone, our Director of Workplace Innovation, has a new column in the May National Real Estate Investor. Titled "Give the People What They Want," the column addresses the ways that a responsive workplace can make good business sense. To access a PDF of the article, click here. (Click the following links to access her last two columns, "Benchmarking Is Only a Starting Point" and "Avoid Managing Change at Your Peril.")
Earlier this month, Ricardo Nabholz of Mancini•Duffy participated in a bike tour of some of New York City's most fascinating — and private — urban landscapes. Sponsored by FLOS and Contract Magazine, and organized by BDE, the tour visited the future SuperPier site, the National September 11 Memorial, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Ricardo on a catwalk at SuperPier, an ambitious project masterminded by YoungWoo & Associates that will redevelop New York City's long-disused Pier 57 into a 270,000-sf retail and entertainment complex.
SuperPier graffiti commemorating Pan Am, the airline that shut down in late 1991.
The SuperPier site, 70 feet underneath the Hudson River. Once developed, the site will have the only underwater real estate in New York City.
The reflecting pools of the National September 11 Memorial.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard was a site of shipbuilding for 150 years until it was decommissioned in 1966.
One of the rope cleats at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Today, the Brooklyn Navy Yards fall within a M3-1 zone, allowing the site to be used for things like gunpowder manufacture, meat processing, and liquor distillation.
Marc Agger, president of the Agger Fish Corporation, lead the tour through the Brooklyn Navy Yard site.
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